Diana Krall | New Music And Songs | Diana Krall About Diana Krall With her pre-bop piano style, cool but sensual singing, and fortuitously photogenic looks, Diana Krall took the jazz world by storm in the late '90s. By the turn of the century she was firmly established as one of the biggest sellers in jazz. Her 1996 album, All for You, was a Nat King Cole tribute that showed the singer/pianist's roots, and since then she has stayed fairly close to that tradition-minded mode, with wildly successful results. Krall got her musical education when she was growing up in Nanaimo, British Columbia, from the classical piano lessons she began at age four and in her high school jazz band, but mostly from her father, a stride piano player with an extensive record collection. "I think Dad has every recording Fats Waller ever made," she said, "and I tried to learn them all." Krall attended the Berklee College of Music on a music scholarship in the early '80s and then moved to Los Angeles, where she lived for three years before moving to Toronto.

By 1990, she was based in New York, performing with a trio and singing. After releasing her first album on Justin Time Records, Krall was signed to GRP for her second, Only Trust Your Heart, and transferred to its Impulse! division for her third, the Nat King Cole Trio tribute album called All for You. Love Scenes followed in 1997, and in late 1998, she issued the seasonal Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas. When I Look in Your Eyes followed in 1999. Whatever renown Krall had earned over the years for her work exploded with this album, which became an international best-seller and earned her a Grammy for Best Jazz Vocal Performance. It was also the first jazz album to be nominated for Album of the Year in 25 years. Krall's crossover success followed her as she performed in Lilith Fair the following year, and her songs cropped up everywhere from episodes of Sex in the City to films like Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil.

In 2001 she released The Look of Love, featuring charts by legendary arranger Claus Ogerman, best known for working with bossa nova innovator Antonio Carlos Jobim in the '60s. The album topped the Billboard charts and went quintuple platinum in Canada, the first by a Canadian jazz artist to do so. The Look of Love also helped Krall win three Junos in 2002, taking home awards for Artist of the Year, Album of the Year, and Best Vocal Jazz Album of the Year. In 2003, Krall married iconic British rock musician Elvis Costello. A year later, she issued The Girl in the Other Room. Covering a few standards, this album also included original material -- some co-written by Costello -- for the first time in her career. Returning to the large ensemble standards approach of her previous album, Krall released From This Moment On in 2006. She gave birth to twin sons in December of that year.

In 2009, she teamed once again with The Look of Love arranger Ogerman for the bossa nova-themed Quiet Nights; the album performed well, debuting at number three on the Billboard Top 200. Krall returned three years later with Glad Rag Doll, a collection of early jazz and ragtime tunes from the '20s and '30s produced by T-Bone Burnett. 2014 saw her once again attempting something new with the album Wallflower, as she covered a selection of pop songs from the '60s onward by the likes of Bob Dylan, Elton John, Gilbert O'Sullivan, and the Eagles, all of whom had inspired her in her childhood. Wallflower saw release in February 2015. ~ William Ruhlmann, Rovi Diana Krall: Touring with my twins | Music | Entertainment | Daily Express MUSIC Diana Krall: Touring with my twins JAZZ QUEEN Diana Krall’s new album may be called Quiet Nights but her everyday life of music, marriage to Elvis Costello and being a mother is anything but quiet. Music Editor Charlotte Heathcote caught her in a break from her busy schedule.

00:00, Sun, Oct 25, 2009 MELLOW: Diana Krall in glamorous mode [] It's np wonder Diana Krall is feeling tired and full of cold. The jazz singer and pianist’s world tour started in March and then this summer she released her 12th album Quiet Nights, although you could read a certain (unintended) irony into that title. Not only is Diana, 44, mother to two-and-a-half-year-old twins Dexter and Frank but the boys have accompanied her throughout the tour. She still also found time to produce Barbra Streisand’s Love Is The Answer. Even with a nanny in tow, quiet nights have not been on the cards. Fortunately the twins’ father is sympathetic to the demands of Diana’s career. You might have heard of him; his name is Elvis Costello. At the time of our interview, the boys are spending a fortnight in New York with their father (Diana being Canadian, they also have a home in Vancouver), giving their mother the chance to catch up on her sleep.

If previous interviews are to be believed, a tired Diana Krall with a cold is a fearsome prospect but it’s telling that she is clearly still stung by the criticism of one journalist. “He said I was a cow,” she said, hurt. “I was pregnant, I’d just been sick but I didn’t want to tell him I was pregnant. We all have off days but mine ended up in print.” Today, there’s no evidence of Diana being remotely bovine, even before her first eagerly awaited coffee of the day. She’s garrulous, passionate and only world-weary when she has to set the record straight on inaccurate rumours. She admits she has mellowed since she married and had children, though: “Becoming a mother has changed me. I’m playing more joyfully. I’m no longer a single woman trying to prove how many pirouettes I can do. “It’s really interestingly not that bad [being so busy] but playing music makes it worthwhile.

I do have telltale signs under my eyes and I’m tired all the time but I don’t complain about work because I love what I do.” At least she knows her husband isn’t resting on his laurels while she works her socks off as he’s been juggling parenthood with recording a new series of his musical chat show Spectacle: Elvis Costello With… Diana and Elvis met when they co-presented a category in the 2002 Grammy Awards. “I was very nervous and asked his advice about getting through it OK,” she once sweetly explained, and they bonded while complaining about the determination of the music industry to pigeonhole its artists. They married in 2003 on the estate of their friend Elton John. The album’s official press release quotes Diana describing the record as “my love letter to my husband” but she sighs when I refer to this, explaining: “Somebody else wrote that. It is a love letter to my husband but it’s bigger than that; it’s also a love letter to my children and a love letter to my family.

That was marketing-speak.” The love letter is also soaked in the spirit of Brazil, a favourite holiday destination, and the record is a mellow blend of sensual bossa nova, shimmying rhythms and Diana’s sweetly husky contralto. She inherited her passion for jazz from her grandmother, who regularly brought the family together for Sunday roasts and, after eating, Diana would join her father, uncle and “whoever else had come by” to sing along to 78s. A sympathetic teacher at school nurtured her passion. “He called me over one day and I was thinking, ‘What have I done?’ when he handed me a big pile of records by people like Chet Baker.” By 14, Diana was playing Fats Waller tracks on the piano. At 18, she was discovered by her hero Ray Brown (once married to Ella Fitzgerald) and learned piano with Jimmy Rowles (who played with Billie Holliday). She then built up her fanbase, which has brought 14million album sales worldwide, through laborious touring.

Describing her concerts as similar to the “informal” dinner parties that she and Elvis love to throw, she also compares her on-stage banter to Eddie Izzard’s, explaining: “I like to chat to my audience and riff a little and go off in different directions.” The cliché goes that musicians might travel the world but all they see is tour buses and hotel rooms but that’s no longer true for Diana. “I love my kids and want to be there for them, which I always am on my tour, finding things to do and things to see. My son Dexter loves painting oils for half an hour so I take them to children’s places or regular art galleries.” She will continue to work this hard for as long as the lifestyle works for her children. “I want them to be free spirits, I love when they’re running round like Tom Sawyers but they need structure and friends. I don’t believe anyone tours this hard with kids, it’s a 15-hour day, but the good thing about kids is that they tell you what they want and I’ll always listen to them.” Most read in Music Diana Krall's new CD goes well with wine, quiet...

| Brockville Recorder Report an error Diana Krall's bossa-nova drenched new album is called Quiet Nights. Now, given the Nanaimo, B.C.-born jazz singer-pianist is the mother of two-and-a-half-year-old twins, Dexter and Frank, with husband of six years and British musician Elvis Costello, that title seems more than a little ironic. "People say, 'How do you have quiet nights? You have twins!' I say, 'It happens, believe me, it might be two o'clock in the morning but it happens,'" said Krall, 44, with a laugh in Toronto recently leading up to the Wednesday night launch of her cross-Canada tour in Calgary. In fact, Krall has no qualms about bringing her youngsters on tour again, as she did previously in 2007 when they were just six months old, in support of her 2006 album, From This Moment On. Not that she knows exactly what to expect when she loads them on her tour bus this time out. "They sing 'The Wheels On The Bus Go Round and Round' so they're really into that song. We'll see how it goes," she says with a smile.

"I can't really panic about it because there's so much unknown that I'm just going to have to figure out if it works. And if it doesn't work, you change it." Coincidentally, on the day that Krall was in Toronto, Costello's new interview and music program, Spectacle, was making its debut on CTV at 10 p.m. that night and she planned to watch it. Costello and the kids were back home in Vancouver. Krall gives Costello an A-plus as an interviewer, although when it came to her turn on Spectacle, their friend Elton John (whose house in England they got married at), interviewed and performed with her. She also spontaneously performed with Tony Bennett when he was a guest on the show. "He's just amazing," she says of Costello on Spectacle. "He's a writer, so as an interviewer, he knows so much about music and he's so well-spoken and he knows what questions to ask, he performs with the artist, so it's really unique. He can talk to anybody and he's so brilliant. I don't know.

My husband's a bit of a genius, he is, I think." Krall, decked out on this day in a beautiful Louis Vutton, '40s inspired black dress and Givenchy patterned fabric stilettos, also said it was fun for the couple to co-present the Juno Award for best album in Vancouver on March 29 because they originally met presenting at the Grammys together. "So to co-present again, we were quite sentimental about that. I think it was a very loving thing to do together to go down the red carpet together and people are elbowing me out of the way to get to him, just all the very, very great bands that are just head over heels for Elvis." Even U.S. President Barack Obama was impressed with Krall's choice of husband when she recently played "Blame it on the Sun" at a tribute to Stevie Wonder in Washington. "Mr.

President says to me, 'I didn't know your husband was Elvis Costello.' He goes, 'Wow, you must give him my best.' So it's pretty cool when the president of the United States is like going, 'Oh, my God, your husband is Elvis Costello!'" Krall is quite possibly the happiest she has ever been, having weathered what she called in another interview, a "six-year grieving period," when her mother was diagnosed with cancer in 1996 and died in 2002. "I feel healthy and happy," she said. "I think my kids they're really interactive right now so they're talking to each other and they're talking to us and they're giving us so much joy and the joy inspires the music and you do better music because you're happy with your family and you're enjoying everything, so when you leave the house you look forward to coming back to this beautiful, joyful life, that these little two-year-old angels are giving us.

So, I'm still singing about sad songs and about loss and things like that, but it's just more balanced." Krall previously described the sexy and intimate sounding Quiet Nights - which features the title track written by Antonio Carlos Jobim and also his "The Boy From Ipanema" - as "a love letter" to Costello. "I didn't have a concept in mind of making something sexy, it just kind of come out that way," she says now. "A lot of people have said 'Well, this is a really slow record,' and I'm like, 'Yes it is.' I don't think it's an album to play while you're doing your Jane Fonda workout! I would listen to it when I'm chillin' at home with a glass of wine and wanting to listen or wanting to just have a quiet night." Krall says she was inspired after performing in Brazil for a DVD release combined with her desire to work again with arranger Claus Ogerman - who worked on her 2001 album, The Look Of Love - and on many seminal bossa nova recordings when the sound first emerged in the '60s.

"So I started listening again to the (1967) Sinatra (Jobim) album and I listened to Quiet Nights and I really related to the English lyrics, cause I related it to home, I related it to the mountains and the sea - 'how lovely, this is where I want to be, here with you so close to me,' - it just reminded me of our home in Vancouver," she said. Still, she recorded another song, "I've Grown Accustomed to His Face," as a surprise for her husband. "That's very personal to Elvis and I, that song, and I sang that as a surprise for him because that's one of his favourite songs," she said. Featured Businesses Diana Krall on Apple Music To preview a song, mouse over the title and click Play. Open iTunes to buy and download music. Biography With her pre-bop piano style, cool but sensual singing, and fortuitously photogenic looks, Diana Krall took the jazz world by storm in the late '90s. By the turn of the century she was firmly established as one of the biggest sellers in jazz.

Her 1996 album, All for You, was a Nat King Cole tribute that showed the singer/pianist's roots, and since then she has stayed fairly close to that tradition-minded mode, with wildly successful results. Krall got her musical education when she was growing up in Nanaimo, British Columbia, from the classical piano lessons she began at age four and in her high school jazz band, but mostly from her father, a stride piano player with an extensive record collection. "I think Dad has every recording Fats Waller ever made," she said, "and I tried to learn them all." Krall attended the Berklee College of Music on a music scholarship in the early '80s and then moved to Los Angeles, where she lived for three years before moving to Toronto. By 1990, she was based in New York, performing with a trio and singing. After releasing her first album on Justin Time Records, Krall was signed to GRP for her second, Only Trust Your Heart, and transferred to its Impulse! division for her third, the Nat King Cole Trio tribute album called All for You.

Love Scenes followed in 1997, and in late 1998, she issued the seasonal Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas. When I Look in Your Eyes followed in 1999. Whatever renown Krall had earned over the years for her work exploded with this album, which became an international best-seller and earned her a Grammy for Best Jazz Vocal Performance. It was also the first jazz album to be nominated for Album of the Year in 25 years. Krall's crossover success followed her as she performed in Lilith Fair the following year, and her songs cropped up everywhere from episodes of Sex in the City to films like Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil. In 2001 she released The Look of Love, featuring charts by legendary arranger Claus Ogerman, best known for working with bossa nova innovator Antonio Carlos Jobim in the '60s. The album topped the Billboard charts and went quintuple platinum in Canada, the first by a Canadian jazz artist to do so. The Look of Love also helped Krall win three Junos in 2002, taking home awards for Artist of the Year, Album of the Year, and Best Vocal Jazz Album of the Year.

In 2003, Krall married iconic British rock musician Elvis Costello. A year later, she issued The Girl in the Other Room. Covering a few standards, this album also included original material -- some co-written by Costello -- for the first time in her career. Returning to the large ensemble standards approach of her previous album, Krall released From This Moment On in 2006. She gave birth to twin sons in December of that year. In 2009, she teamed once again with The Look of Love arranger Ogerman for the bossa nova-themed Quiet Nights; the album performed well, debuting at number three on the Billboard Top 200. Krall returned three years later with Glad Rag Doll, a collection of early jazz and ragtime tunes from the '20s and '30s produced by T-Bone Burnett. 2014 saw her once again attempting something new with the album Wallflower, as she covered a selection of pop songs from the '60s onward by the likes of Bob Dylan, Elton John, Gilbert O'Sullivan, and the Eagles, all of whom had inspired her in her childhood.

Wallflower saw release in February 2015. ~ William Ruhlmann Top Albums Diana Krall Bio | Diana Krall Career | MTV Jazz With her pre-bop piano style, cool but sensual singing, and fortuitously photogenic looks, Diana Krall took the jazz world by storm in the late '90s. By the turn of the century she was firmly established as one of the biggest sellers in jazz. Her 1996 album, All for You, was a Nat King Cole tribute that showed the singer/pianist's roots, and since then she has stayed fairly close to that tradition-minded mode, with wildly successful results. Krall got her musical education when she was growing up in Nanaimo, British Columbia, from the classical piano lessons she began at age four and in her high school jazz band, but mostly from her father, a stride piano player with an extensive record collection. "I think Dad has every recording Fats Waller ever made," she said, "and I tried to learn them all." Krall attended the Berklee College of Music on a music scholarship in the early '80s and then moved to Los Angeles, where she lived for three years before moving to Toronto.

By 1990, she was based in New York, performing with a trio and singing. After releasing her first album on Justin Time Records, Krall was signed to GRP for her second, Only Trust Your Heart, and transferred to its Impulse! division for her third, the Nat King Cole Trio tribute album called All for You. Love Scenes followed in 1997, and in late 1998, she issued the seasonal Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas. When I Look in Your Eyes followed in 1999. Whatever renown Krall had earned over the years for her work exploded with this album, which became an international best-seller and earned her a Grammy for Best Jazz Vocal Performance. It was also the first jazz album to be nominated for Album of the Year in 25 years. Krall's crossover success followed her as she performed in Lilith Fair the following year, and her songs cropped up everywhere from episodes of Sex in the City to films like Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil.

In 2001 she released The Look of Love, featuring charts by legendary arranger Claus Ogerman, best known for working with bossa nova innovator Antonio Carlos Jobim in the '60s. The album topped the Billboard charts and went quintuple platinum in Canada, the first by a Canadian jazz artist to do so. The Look of Love also helped Krall win three Junos in 2002, taking home awards for Artist of the Year, Album of the Year, and Best Vocal Jazz Album of the Year. In 2003, Krall married iconic British rock musician Elvis Costello. A year later, she issued The Girl in the Other Room. Covering a few standards, this album also included original material -- some co-written by Costello -- for the first time in her career. Returning to the large ensemble standards approach of her previous album, Krall released From This Moment On in 2006. She gave birth to twin sons in December of that year.

In 2009, she teamed once again with The Look of Love arranger Ogerman for the bossa nova-themed Quiet Nights; the album performed well, debuting at number three on the Billboard Top 200. Krall returned three years later with Glad Rag Doll, a collection of early jazz and ragtime tunes from the '20s and '30s produced by T-Bone Burnett. 2014 saw her once again attempting something new with the album Wallflower, as she covered a selection of pop songs from the '60s onward by the likes of Bob Dylan, Elton John, Gilbert O'Sullivan, and the Eagles, all of whom had inspired her in her childhood. Wallflower saw release in February 2015. ~ William Ruhlmann, Rovi Diana Krall on Apple Music To preview a song, mouse over the title and click Play. Open iTunes to buy and download music. Biography With her pre-bop piano style, cool but sensual singing, and fortuitously photogenic looks, Diana Krall took the jazz world by storm in the late '90s. By the turn of the century she was firmly established as one of the biggest sellers in jazz.

Her 1996 album, All for You, was a Nat King Cole tribute that showed the singer/pianist's roots, and since then she has stayed fairly close to that tradition-minded mode, with wildly successful results. Krall got her musical education when she was growing up in Nanaimo, British Columbia, from the classical piano lessons she began at age four and in her high school jazz band, but mostly from her father, a stride piano player with an extensive record collection. "I think Dad has every recording Fats Waller ever made," she said, "and I tried to learn them all." Krall attended the Berklee College of Music on a music scholarship in the early '80s and then moved to Los Angeles, where she lived for three years before moving to Toronto. By 1990, she was based in New York, performing with a trio and singing. After releasing her first album on Justin Time Records, Krall was signed to GRP for her second, Only Trust Your Heart, and transferred to its Impulse! division for her third, the Nat King Cole Trio tribute album called All for You.

Love Scenes followed in 1997, and in late 1998, she issued the seasonal Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas. When I Look in Your Eyes followed in 1999. Whatever renown Krall had earned over the years for her work exploded with this album, which became an international best-seller and earned her a Grammy for Best Jazz Vocal Performance. It was also the first jazz album to be nominated for Album of the Year in 25 years. Krall's crossover success followed her as she performed in Lilith Fair the following year, and her songs cropped up everywhere from episodes of Sex in the City to films like Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil. In 2001 she released The Look of Love, featuring charts by legendary arranger Claus Ogerman, best known for working with bossa nova innovator Antonio Carlos Jobim in the '60s. The album topped the Billboard charts and went quintuple platinum in Canada, the first by a Canadian jazz artist to do so. The Look of Love also helped Krall win three Junos in 2002, taking home awards for Artist of the Year, Album of the Year, and Best Vocal Jazz Album of the Year.

In 2003, Krall married iconic British rock musician Elvis Costello. A year later, she issued The Girl in the Other Room. Covering a few standards, this album also included original material -- some co-written by Costello -- for the first time in her career. Returning to the large ensemble standards approach of her previous album, Krall released From This Moment On in 2006. She gave birth to twin sons in December of that year. In 2009, she teamed once again with The Look of Love arranger Ogerman for the bossa nova-themed Quiet Nights; the album performed well, debuting at number three on the Billboard Top 200. Krall returned three years later with Glad Rag Doll, a collection of early jazz and ragtime tunes from the '20s and '30s produced by T-Bone Burnett. 2014 saw her once again attempting something new with the album Wallflower, as she covered a selection of pop songs from the '60s onward by the likes of Bob Dylan, Elton John, Gilbert O'Sullivan, and the Eagles, all of whom had inspired her in her childhood.

Wallflower saw release in February 2015. ~ William Ruhlmann Top Albums Diana Krall - Pianist, Singer - Biography.com Diana Krall Diana Krall is a jazz musician who achieved crossover success with her sultry, understated vocals and her bop piano playing. IN THESE GROUPS » quotes “So much of what we do as artists is a combination of personal experience and imagination, and how that all creeps into your work is not so linear.” “When you drive by Radio City and you see your name up there and it's only 'your' name. I just went 'ooh.' I thought this is really like looking at another person.” Diana Krall Synopsis Diana Krall is a Canadian jazz musician whose breakthrough came in 1996 with the album All for You. She received her first Grammy Award for 1999's When I Look in Your Eyes. On The Girl in the Other Room, Krall for the first time included some of her own compositions as well as songs written or co-written by British singer-songwriter Elvis Costello, whom she had married in 2003.

Early Life Diana Krall was born on November 16, 1964, in Nanaimo, Canada. She grew up in British Columbia, where she began taking classical piano lessons when she was just 4 years old. In her youth, Krall spent hours listening to her accountant father's 78 RPM record collection. Her grandparents exposed her to jazz music, and she spent many weekends singing the classics at their house. By the age of 15, Krall was performing classics in bars and restaurants. She received a scholarship to attend the Berklee College of Music in Boston, Massachusetts, where she studied music. After graduating, she lived briefly in Los Angeles, California, before moving to Toronto, where she recorded her debut album, 1993's Stepping Out. She moved to New York City shortly after the project's release. Career Success In 1996, Diana Krall released All for You, a Nat King Cole tribute album that served as her breakthrough. The wild success of her follow-up project, 1999's When I Look in Your Eyes, made it clear that audiences loved her traditionalist jazz sound.

The album sat on top of the charts for more than a year and became an international best-seller. It also earned Krall her first Grammy Award, for best jazz vocal performance. Krall went on to win the 2002 Grammy for best jazz vocal album for her seventh album, Live in Paris. She also received plenty of accolades in her home country; she took home three Juno Awards (from the Canadian Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences ) for her 2001 album, The Look of Love, including for album of the year and artist of the year. Diversifying Her Sound In 2003, Krall married British musician Elvis Costello; the couple has a pair of twin boys, Dexter and Frank. Costello actively encouraged Krall to write her own music, and eventually, the couple began composing songs together. The resulting album, Girl in the Other Room (2004), was criticized for erring toward a contemporary pop sound instead of staying true to Krall's jazz roots, with some dissatisfied fans even walking out of her concerts.

But that didn't scare Krall away from experimenting with new styles; 2009's Quiet Nights features Brazilian songs, and 2012's Glad Rag Doll is comprised of Prohibition-era singles. New Pursuits Krall has toured worldwide, mostly with her trio—a guitar and drums, in addition to her piano—but often with a symphony. She's performed at Carnegie Hall, and at the White House for President Barack Obama, among various other venues. In addition to creating music, Krall has produced music for legendary singer-songwriter Barbra Steisand. She also played piano for several songs on Steisand's 2009 album, Love Is the Answer. Additionally, Krall worked with rock icon and former Beatle Paul McCartney on his 2012 album, Kisses on the Bottom. Fact Check We strive for accuracy and fairness. If you see something that doesn't look right, contact us !

Citation Information 1000+ images about DIANA KRALL on Pinterest | Diana krall, Jazz and Diana Pinterest • The world’s catalog of ideas DIANA KRALL Warm, sultry Diana Krall offers 'Quiet Nights' - CNN.com Warm, sultry Diana Krall offers 'Quiet Nights' Story Highlights Diana Krall's new album, "Quiet Nights," features bossa nova interpretations Singer-pianist is producing Barbara Streisand's new album She's doing what she loves; "How lucky am I?" she says By Shanon Cook CNN NEW YORK (CNN) -- The home life Diana Krall shares with husband (and fellow musical brain) Elvis Costello and their 2-year-old twin boys is a little nutty. Diana Krall's new album, "Quiet Nights," was inspired by a trip she made to Brazil. "It's zany in the most wonderful way," says the 44-year-old jazz singer-pianist. "You have two little boys leaping off the furniture who think they're Buzz Lightyear while we're practicing and playing.

It's just a happy house." Krall's domestic bliss -- "domestic" being a new concept for the ever-touring artist -- is suggested in the warm, intimate vibe of her latest album "Quiet Nights." "It's a very natural process for me, making a record. It ends up being a reflection of where I am at that time. My life is just tremendous right now. It couldn't be better," she says. No kidding. "Quiet Nights" debuted at No. 3 on the Billboard 200 album charts last week, a career high for Krall. A memorable trip to Brazil in 2007 inspired the Canadian chanteuse to take her 12th album in a bossa nova direction: The title track is the English version of the bossa nova classic "Corcovado." She also covers "The Girl from Ipanema" -- though naturally in her whispery rendition she flips "girl" to "boy" -- and gives a fresh spin on Frank Sinatra's "Where or When." Watch Krall find bliss in Brazil » "There was something about turning 'Where or When' into a bossa nova that changes the feeling for me of the song," Krall said.

"It's much more emotional than if I sang it in a swing feeling. I've always experimented with that." Krall brought arranger and conductor Claus Ogerman on board. He was a natural, having worked with Sinatra and Brazilian singer-songwriter Antonio Carlos Jobim who wrote both "Ipanema" and "Corcovado." And Krall co-produced the album with frequent collaborator Tommy LiPuma. Don't Miss Read more of Shanon Cook's Music & Conversation pieces "One of the best parts of making a record is the dinner after where you all you go to the restaurant, you decompress, have some great wine and just tell stories and listen to Claus and Tommy and [engineer] Al Schmidt and all these people telling amazing stories," says Krall. Diana Krall recently sat down with CNN to share some stories of her own about a teenaged letter to Oscar Peterson, idolizing Harry Connick Jr. and Mickey Mouse pancakes. The following is an edited version of the interview. CNN: This is the first album you've made since becoming a mother. Does it feel different somehow? Diana Krall: I think [this album reflects my present] state of mind.

It's not about loss, it's not preparing for loss. I'm not peeling grapes. Life has changed a lot and it's not just about performing and touring. It's motherhood and having a home for the first time, because I've always been on the road. So it's an incredible thing to be making Mickey Mouse pancakes in the morning while you're doing your interviews. CNN: You've been producing Barbara Streisand's new album. What has that been like? Krall: Incredible. I just am so thrilled with her performance on this album. [She gives] one of the most incredible performances I think of her career on a song called "You Must Believe in Spring" with a great pianist from New York named Phil Charlap. It's just piano and voice and it's so incredibly stunning. She said to me, "Maybe it needs some strings or something." I said "Don't touch it! Just leave it! It's gorgeous!" It's been great working artist to artist and we had a lot of fun. We played cards.

So when there were moments in the studio where there was something technical that had to be fixed, we'd deal the cards and we'd play gin rummy, which I'm lousy at. Thank goodness. CNN: This is the first album you've produced for another artist. Way to choose somebody really small to start off with. Krall: She chose me! I had a few phone calls and it was a little daunting, but it was a great experience and really, really intense, as you would expect it to be. CNN: Some people were a little put out by your record "The Girl in the Other Room" because you strayed from jazz. How did you process that reaction? Krall: Somebody's always put out with anything I do (laughs). "Why'd you do 'The Look of Love?' " "Why don't you do 'The Look of Love' again?" I don't know! I'm too busy trying to put the Lego back in the box, and making sure nobody's eating all the Play-Doh. That record did very well and a lot of people say to me, "That's my favorite record." And I wrote [it] with my husband, so I don't really look back. I look forward.

And I've got a pretty loyal audience. CNN: What would you say to your sons if they tell you they want to be musicians when they grow up? Krall: They should do whatever makes them happy. This is what they know so if that's what they choose to do -- who knows. They could be like my mom and my dad and be a teacher-librarian and a chartered accountant. That's fine too. A month ago I found this letter I wrote to Oscar Peterson when I was 16 years old and my mom had saved it for me and put it in a box in the attic. It was a five-page letter I wrote to Oscar Peterson saying, "Dear Oscar, I'm 16 years old and I hear a professional musician's life is a very difficult one but I know this is the only life I want to have." And it was really enlightening for me to see the focus of a 16-year-old. It reminded me of how much I love the music and always wanted to do what I'm doing, so how lucky am I? CNN: But it's not all luck. Krall: I think it's a lot of luck. I think I started in a very good time.

When I went to see that film "When Harry Met Sally," and I heard Harry Connick playing the piano, I though there's somebody who's my age and he's playing the music that I love. And I felt like there was a kindred spirit and it inspired me to go, "I want to do exactly what he's doing." And I still owe a lot of thanks to Harry. I've only met him like a couple of times, but he's still a favorite artist of mine. Diana Krall — Listen for free on Spotify Diana Krall Play on Spotify With her pre-bop piano style, cool but sensual singing, and fortuitously photogenic looks, Diana Krall took the jazz world by storm in the late '90s. By the turn of the century she was firmly established as one of the biggest sellers in jazz. Her 1996 album, All for You, was a Nat King Cole tribute that showed the singer/pianist's roots, and since then she has stayed fairly close to that tradition-minded mode, with wildly successful results.

Krall got her musical education when she was growing up in Nanaimo, British Columbia, from the classical piano lessons she began at age four and in her high school jazz band, but mostly from her father, a stride piano player with an extensive record collection. "I think Dad has every recording Fats Waller ever made," she said, "and I tried to learn them all." Krall attended the Berklee College of Music on a music scholarship in the early '80s and then moved to Los Angeles, where she lived for three years before moving to Toronto. By 1990, she was based in New York, performing with a trio and singing. After releasing her first album on Justin Time Records, Krall was signed to GRP for her second, Only Trust Your Heart, and transferred to its Impulse! division for her third, the Nat King Cole Trio tribute album called All for You. Love Scenes followed in 1997, and in late 1998, she issued the seasonal Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas. When I Look in Your Eyes followed in 1999.

Whatever renown Krall had earned over the years for her work exploded with this album, which became an international best-seller and earned her a Grammy for Best Jazz Vocal Performance. It was also the first jazz album to be nominated for Album of the Year in 25 years. Krall's crossover success followed her as she performed in Lilith Fair the following year, and her songs cropped up everywhere from episodes of Sex in the City to films like Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil. In 2001 she released The Look of Love, featuring charts by legendary arranger Claus Ogerman , best known for working with bossa nova innovator Antonio Carlos Jobim in the '60s. The album topped the Billboard charts and went quintuple platinum in Canada, the first by a Canadian jazz artist to do so. The Look of Love also helped Krall win three Junos in 2002, taking home awards for Artist of the Year, Album of the Year, and Best Vocal Jazz Album of the Year. In 2003, Krall married iconic British rock musician Elvis Costello . A year later, she issued The Girl in the Other Room.

Covering a few standards, this album also included original material -- some co-written by Costello -- for the first time in her career. Returning to the large ensemble standards approach of her previous album, Krall released From This Moment On in 2006. She gave birth to twin sons in December of that year. In 2009, she teamed once again with The Look of Love arranger Ogerman for the bossa nova-themed Quiet Nights; the album performed well, debuting at number three on the Billboard Top 200. Krall returned three years later with Glad Rag Doll, a collection of early jazz and ragtime tunes from the '20s and '30s produced by T-Bone Burnett . 2014 saw her once again attempting something new with the album Wallflower, as she covered a selection of pop songs from the '60s onward by the likes of Bob Dylan , Elton John , Gilbert O'Sullivan , and the Eagles , all of whom had inspired her in her childhood. Wallflower saw release in February 2015. ~ William Ruhlmann, Rovi Read More Show less

Question: Her 2009 album is called 'Quiet Nights', so which Canadian jazz singer and pianist is married to Elvis Costello?
Answer: DIANA KRALL